Tottenham boss Postecoglou confident new signings can handle Arsenal atmos

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23 Sep 2023 • 1:56 AM MYT
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Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou hopes the club's summer signings relish the North London derby.

The high flying Premier League club take on their bitter rivals Arsenal at the weekend.

Postecoglou, who is also set to coach his first derby with Spurs, admits some of the club's new arrivals will get their first taste of this intense fixture.

He told reporters: You're right, we're going to have a quite a few who aren't going to have played in this fixture and away from home. It's not just that it's a derby and away from home, it's the challenge of overcoming a really strong opponent away from home. Irrespective [of the rivalry], Arsenal are a very, very good side. Again, with these things, it's the experience that makes you grow.

I've always felt with these kinds of fixtures, you allow the players to go out there and hopefully try to get them to express themselves in the best possible way and not put too many restrictions around them or try to guide them too much on what to expect or how they should react to it. It's much better they go through the experience & they can reflect on it than you offer advice.

From our perspective, we've tried to create an environment where we train really hard every day, preparing for a really difficult game at the end of the week. And hopefully that constant day-to-day conditioning of the boys, their physical being, their mental being, means every week they feel like it's a big game. So when they do get into a game of more significance from a public perspective like this one, it hopefully doesn't change them too much."